Irina Chernetsky, Dr.

Dr. Irina Chernetsky is a scholar of Renaissance art and architecture and a lecturer in the History of Art Department at Tel Aviv University, the Midrasha – Faculty of Arts at Beit Berl College, and the Schechter Institute. She graduated and earned her PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Among her publications are the book, The Mythological Origins of Renaissance Florence: The City as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, published by the Cambridge University Press in 2022, and several articles, among them: 

The Role of the Baptistery in the Formation of Florence as a New Rome and a New Jerusalem, Viator 53.2 (2023), 249-294
The Depiction of Florence as Jerusalem in Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, Artibus et Historiae 77 (2018), 13-30
The Creation of the World by Virgil Solis, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 79 (2016), 211-225